Category Archives: Council

Archbishop Duke Council 6855 39th Anniversary and Awards Night
October 24, 2015
St. Paul Parish Center
6:30PM Cocktails and 7:00PM Dinner
(details of Program TBA)

October 7th at 8:15 PM
St. Paul Parish Center
Your support is very important, please come and attend.

October 13th
At the residence of Bro. Edgar and Priscilla Ursua.
RSVP Bro. Americo at 604 278 8031 or
Bro. Edgar at 604 270 4260

October 16th at 8PM
St Paul Parish Center
Calling all 1st Degree members to join and move-up.

October 19th at 7:30PM
Room 1+2
Important matters to be discussed. Please attend and share your valuable thoughts.

October 1 to 31, 2015
Daily Rosary at 7:00PM weekdays and after the evening mass on weekends; in front of the Memorial of our Lady of the Unborn or at church foyer if it is too cold outside or raining.

Duke Council Newsletter August 2015

Installation of Officers July 29, 2023

Worthy Brothers All,

A big THANK YOU to all the Brother Knights who helped with the altar servers’ appreciation BBQ yesterday, and with the setup and takedown for the State Banquet later in the day.

We have just one more Council activity for fraternal year 2014-2015: the First Degree Exemplification this Monday. Our outgoing State Deputy Ed Shawchuk will be in attendance.  Let’s give it our best effort!

We herald a new month and a new fraternal year this July 1^st by celebrating Canada’s birthday in grand style marching in the Steveston Salmon Festival parade.  Our Fourth Degree Knights lead the charge in their colourful regalia and banners.  All other Knights are enjoined to attend in their KofC business blazer.  It’s always a fun event and an opportunity to visibly promote our Order in the wider community.  There will be a post-parade lunch reception hosted by Pope John Paul I Assembly at St. Joseph the Worker. Wives and families are welcome.  We hope you have sent in your RSVPs to Faithful Navigator Edgar Ursua so they can prepare accordingly.

As this is my final WHAT’S UP missive before turning the reins over to our incoming Grand Knight Bro. Rely Diego, I bid you all a fond farewell and thank each one of you for your support and patient persistence over the past year.  May God prosper our Council in fraternal year 2015-2016!

WHAT’S HAPPENING THIS WEEK:

June 29 Monday 7pm @ Parish Centre Room 1+2+4
First Degree Exemplification 

July 1 Wednesday 8:30am @ St. Joseph the Worker Church Hall
Canada Day Parade
Lunch Reception to follow (RSVP FN Edgar Ursua 604-270-4260)

July 3 Friday 7pm @ St. Paul Gym
Sports Night

COMING UP:

July 6 – Executive Meeting
July 10 – Sports Night
July 11 – Installation of Officers
July 13 – General Meeting
July 17 – Sports Night
July 19 – Pancake Breakfast
July 24 – Sports Night
July 26 – Parish Picnic

…

August 21-23 – Family Camping at Lighthouse Marine Park in Point Roberts

“Is anything too wonderful for the Lord?” – Genesis 18:14

Worthy Brothers All,

I hope you all had a very loooooong day celebrating with your Dads / kids…

And if today made you feel your age, perhaps you should make a point of being at our Sports Night this coming Friday.  Break out a sweat and shoot some hoops…  Bring your family along.  Let’s put some teeth into our Bro. Pat Macken’s assertion in the June 12 issue of BC Catholic:  “The Knights, faith, and sports belong together.”  (Here is a link to the article in case you missed it.)

The Annual District 23 Golf Tournament held last Saturday at the Country Meadows Golf & Country Club was a smashing success with a total of 80 golfers participating from all over the Greater Vancouver area, with a number of brothers joining in the lunch and awards ceremonies.  The winners trophy now resides with Council 6855 which fielded the winning team.

Congratulations to our fully-minted 3rd Degree Brother Knights Greg Bautista, David Chong and Joseph Lo who were exemplified last Friday together with 20-plus other Brothers at the Canadian Martyrs Church.

This Saturday, we show our Parish altar servers how much we value their faithful service to our liturgical celebrations by throwing them abarbecue party along with some dodgeball for entertainment.  They do appreciate being appreciated!

Please take note that our First Degree Exemplification for June has been restored to its original schedule of June 29 Monday in order to meet the noon June 30^th cut-off for this fraternal year.  As well, the State is sponsoring a special First Degree Exemplification honouring Bishop Ken Nowakowski this Friday June 26 at St. Joseph the Worker Church.  With these two opportunities, let’s all give one more big heave toward recruiting a new Knight before we wrap up fraternal year 2014-2015!

Don’t forget to share your bounty with the less privileged by bring an item or two for the Food Bank collection this weekend.

Summer is upon us — full steam ahead!

WHAT’S HAPPENING THIS WEEK:

June 22 Monday 7:30pm @ Parish Centre Room 6
Choir Practice

June 24 Wednesday 7pm @ St. Paul School
Grade 7 Farewell / Commencement Awards

June 26 Friday 6pm @ St. Joseph the Worker Parish Centre
First Degree Exemplification in honour of Bishop Ken Nowakowski

June 26 Friday 7pm @ St. Paul Gym
Sports Night

June 27 Saturday 11am @ St. Paul Gym
Altar Servers Dodgeball & BBQ Appreciation

June 27 Saturday 2pm @ St. Paul Gym
Setup for State District Organization Meeting

June 27 Saturday 10pm @ St. Paul Gym
Takedown for State District Organization Meeting

June 27-28 Saturday-Sunday @ St. Paul Church foyer
Food Bank Sunday

COMING UP:

June 29 – First Degree Exemplification;
                   Retirement and 60^th Anniversary of Ordination
                         of Rev. Vincent Hawkswell
June 30 – Deadline for Bishop Lobsinger bursary applications
July 1 – Canada Day Parade
July 6 – Executive Meeting
July 11 – Installation of Officers
July 13 – General Meeting
July 19 – Pancake Breakfast
July 26 – Parish Picnic
August 21-23 – Family Camping at Lighthouse Marine Park in Point Roberts

“The earth’s thy ship and not thy home.” – St. Therese d’Lisieux